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pasztorpisti wrote: What about posting up a few tips with short intro + sources?
I would vote that a 5 many times over.
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OK, then I post the sources as tips, it will serve well for PE divers at least as a tutorial or reference. Its easier to find out things even by debugging this code then starting from zero. 
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Thanks! Unfortunately I'm not one of the chosen ones. I'll have to wait til it's approved, I'm afraid.
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OK, will repost it when its done!
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Great!
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Falconapollo wrote: Some companies ask the other ways to load Dynamic-Link Libraries(besieds explict and implict) in their interview.
But I wonder whether exists other ways to load the Dynamic-Link Libraries?
Excluding evidence to the contrary I would say that you covered all of the possibilities.
Have you considered the possibility that those "companies" (presumably actually certain individuals) are wrong? Did they explain their answer to you so perhaps you could paraphrase what they said?
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Maybe you are right.
How about the DLL Injection and API Hooking which is mentioned in Chapter 22,
Windows via C/C++, Fifth Edition by Jeffrey Richter and Christophe Nasarre?
It seems another way to use dll.
But I'm not sure.
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DLL Injection is simply a way to invoke explicit linking (calling LoadLibrary).
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I have an app that has worked for YEARS. Flawlessly. <insert demons="" here="">
It does a lot of file processing. On my laptop, it fails to open certain files. I catch the exception, and the reason is 0 (no error). My laptop - W7 Pro.
My laptop Xp Pro VM: fail.
On the "golden" laptop, it works fine. Xp Pro.
Assorted other machines - fail.
I copied the source from the golden machine, built it, FAIL.
Copied the binary off the golden machine to mine: FAIL.
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The only wildcard I can think of is that some update has broken something, but that is surely digging deep.
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Any wild ass ideas or random thoughts?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Any wild ass ideas or random thoughts?
Yes, something is going wrong somewhere.
You really need to do some debugging and provide some more specific technical information for anyone to be able offer any suggestions.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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Understood.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: fail
doesn't mean anything except to you that can see the system, code and the error messages.
Why is common sense not common?
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert.
Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy
Please stand in front of my pistol, smile and wait for the flash - JSOP 2012
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Wes - sorry, the context of the "fail" is simply opening a new file. The open fails, but no error data is returned.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Does GetLastError return anything?
Why is common sense not common?
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert.
Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy
Please stand in front of my pistol, smile and wait for the flash - JSOP 2012
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Yep. 0 (or no problem). Real bizarre.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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are those files in restricted areas? does your account have access to them?
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The files are in an area that I'll call the release area - the same place they have been for 5+ years. It's a specific folder in our development tree on my C drive.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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File access is the first thing I checked.
The app uses CFile, and I catch the exception when the open fails - the error code is a 0 (no problems). An article I read suggested that MFC was doing something deep down inside and resetting the error code before the exception processing (also within mfc) could grab it. So, I stepped through mfc, caught the file open failure - status is 0.
It's just not making any sense.
As far as providing more information, that's the hard part - I'm not getting anything back from the OS (W7 or Xp).
Since the application used to work flawlessly, I'm wondering if some Windows update nuked something. But I have a hard time going there. Has anyone had that happen to them - an update killing an application?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Has anyone had that happen to them - an update killing an application?
Yes! MS update nuked the synaptics touchpad driver for the missus' netbook. Was working just fine. Went to sleep, woke up to discover an update had been applied and the machine had been reset to complete installation. After that, the touchpad was non-responsive. (win XP)
Hmm, must fix that - thanks for the reminder.
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lol, glad I could help 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Is the program trying to create a new file, or open an existing file?
Did you try running the program "as administrator?"
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Open a new file.
And I am god on my laptop, so I don't think it's that. But, I've always used the properties option on the fileview to override the base settings. Made sure I was running as admin, run it in Xp mode, etc. No joy, same error.
The weird thing, again, is that the source code has not changed in over two years. A few weeks back, the app just came off the rails and started having these issues.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: A few weeks back, the app just came off the rails and started having these issues.
What's not clear is whether you have been running it on Win 7 for a long time before the issue appeared, or if the issue has always existed on Win 7.
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